Last Ape Standing The Sevenmillion Year Story Of How And Why We Survived
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780802717566
Description: Seeks to explain why homo sapiens survived while other hominids did not, drawing on recent scientific discoveries and examining the survival value of such factors as premature births, long childhoods, and an extremely social nature.

"Tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature's brutal and capricious ways we stand here today, the only surviving humans, and the planet's most dominant species"--P. [4] of jacket.